2009-11-05

Emacs has a very useful system for bookmarks – shortcuts to often-used
files. It's also one of those features I only really started using after years
of emacs – there seem to be many of such obvious features…

Bookmarks are especially handy if you have long file names, or for examples
the special file names for editing root-owned files discussed here before.

To start using bookmarks effectively, there are only a few important key
bindings to memorize: C-x r m ('make') will create a new bookmark,
defaulting to the current file. Then, you can jump to an existing bookmark
with C-x r b ('bookmark') Finally, you can see the list of your bookmarks
with C-x r l ('list').